Monday, February 13, 2017
Friday, February 10, 2017
Fashion Favorites Friday : 6 Make-Up Artist Must Haves!
First is Foundation. I think the coverage and brightness of Even Better blows many foundations away. It is light and airy and flawless. A must have in my beauty bag!
Benefits:
Evens Skin Tone, SPF
Skin Types:
2, 3
Wear oil-free, dermatologist-developed Even Better Makeup SPF
15 and something amazing happens: Without any makeup, see improved
clarity, a more even skin tone, visibly diminished age spots. For all
ethnicities. In just 4 to 6 weeks. Broad spectrum SPF helps protect
against future darkening. For continued benefits-even after you take it
off-partner with Even Better Clinical Dark Spot Corrector.
Next is the world famous and favorite Bronzer! I have tried every brand I can find and still I am in love with Cliniques loose bronzer! Let the sun-kissed glow begin!
Blended Face Powder and Brush
Benefits:
Evens skin tone, wear alone or over foundation
Skin Types:
All
Clinique's signature blended powder. Loose, lightweight
texture is right for every type of skin. Sets and perfects makeup, makes
pores seem to disappear. Airy, skin-hugging formula delivers a reliably
flawless finish.
I don't choose my products by popularity or brand name or even price. As a make-up artist I have discovered you can find amazing products at every price point. This cream eye-shadow is a great example. Want your powder eye-shadow to last all day? Apply this under the powder and whaa Laaa! All day staying power!
e.l.f. Smudge Pot Cream Eyeshadow
This smooth gel formula glides on perfectly. Use it as a long-lasting
eyeshadow or eyeliner! Enriched with Vitamin E to nourish and hydrate
the delicate eye area.
Again Elf has some fantastic buys! Here is another must have! Want that trendy cat eye for a great price? This one is smooth, easy to handle, and lasts all day. Don't let the price fool ya! It rocks!
e.l.f. Waterproof Eyeliner Pen
Did I say I am in love with long, fluttery lashes? Of coarse, it's a make-artist dream!! This seriously will give you that length you have been looking for without the price of extensions or the messy glue of falsies. You do need patience, and smooth pull through the lashes. You may need a eyelash comb as well. You will love what happens when you use this magic stuff!
Moodstruck 3D Fiber Lashes+
Increase your average lash volume by up to 400%!
Go wherever your mood takes you with the wildly popular Moodstruck 3D
Fiber Lashes+. Whether you're feeling sexy, sultry, classy, or shy, this
revolutionary lash enhancer allows you to flaunt your inner beauty to
the world.
My newest, amazing, and to die for favorite lip color! My daughters friend introduced me to it...and can I just say I have been waiting for this all my make-up life! It won't smear, rub off, or wear off. It won't get on your teeth or kiss away! You have to have this one in your beauty bag!
LipSense®
LipSense Liquid Lip Color
The premier product for SeneGence®, LipSense is a
patented, amazing departure from conventional lipsticks and lip colors.
LipSense is versatile in that you can mix shades to create a number of
effects.
Tune in next Friday for More Fashion Favorites! A pretty face can bring a burst of Joy! Hope your getting your Sparkle on!!!
- Unique product is waterproof and does not kiss off, smear off, rub off, or budge off!
- Does not dry out your lips – it works to restore the moisture content
- Color lasts anywhere between 4 and 18 hours
Tune in next Friday for More Fashion Favorites! A pretty face can bring a burst of Joy! Hope your getting your Sparkle on!!!
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
5 Powerful Tools To Jump-Start Your Joy !
I have always been a seeker of finding something enthralling out of life. It started as a child when I would make delicate, homemade trinkets, and sentimental tokens of a undying love, that I would leave on my mothers pillow. I was a child looking for love in a a very broken environment. I was quite a survivor. I owe it to not letting my hope die when things looked bleak. Now my challenging childhood journey has become a catalyst for some of my splendid, unearthly work. What saved me were powerful tools I found that turned my existence from surviving into living. Some of those tools served me well, others I had to let go as childhood things when I became an adult. The ones worth holding on to, are the ones I want to share with you.I have been mesmerized by a few new tools I have discovered, that not only make Joy possible, but inevitable. Let's get started! No sense in putting off happiness any longer. I am going to share five powerful tools to jump-start your joy!I am going to start with the fastest way to spark Joy instantly!
1. Lift The Hands That Hang Down
Hebrews 12:12
True love requires
action. We can speak of love all day long—we can write poems that proclaim it,
sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it—but until we
manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but “sounding brass, or a
tinkling cymbal.”Christ did not just speak about love; He showed it each day of His life. He did not remove Himself from the crowd. Being amidst the people, Jesus reached out to the one. He rescued the lost.When the Savior stretches out His hands, those He touches are uplifted and become greater, stronger, and better people as a result. If we are His hands, should we not do the same? 1
2. The Happiness Jar
Psalms 37:4
I started this around the end of the year in 2016. It has served me really well already. It is really quite simple, and a no hassle way to JOY. It’s basically like a gratitude list in a Jar. Every time something your grateful for happens, or something encourages your happy factor, you write it down and put it in the jar. Then on New Years empty them out, and see what a Joyful year you had! Or anytime you need a lift. We often remember the negative things that happen in our lives. Now there is a way to focus on the Joy's!
3.Offer Forgiveness You Have Been Denying
Ephesians 4:31
4. Letting Go Of Fear
Psalm 56
“Fear not!” He puts his trust in the Lord…
"When I am afraid,
I will trust in you.
In God, whose word I praise,
In God I trust; I will not be afraid.
What can mortal man do to me?"
What fear is trying to take a hold of you right now? What threat or trouble are you facing?
Watch and pray with David, “When I am afraid of _________, I will trust in you, O Lord.”
In my upcoming blog posts I will show you how to use Scripture, prayers, and your heart like this, to overcome anxiety and fear. Let me help you walk through your fears and into the loving arms of Christ. You can learn to live with peace and power! You can learn to experience Joy!
5. Progress Not Perfection
Philippians 4:13
We all know the
scripture that states Matthew 5:48 "Be ye therefore perfect,
even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." This can seem a
monumental task. We can get so caught up and hung up on these words that, we
loose sight of the journey, lessons, and progress we have made. Being a perfectionist
has proven time and time again to be destructive and even detrimental when it
cripples progression or motivation. We can get so stuck wanting to do things
perfect, or wanting to appear perfect, that we forget how to be perfectly
human, perfectly real, perfectly weak. God gave us our weakness so we would
turn to him and not boast of our own strength. He gave us weaknesses as
challenges to make us stronger. The most perfect one can be, is when one is
honest about how weak we really are. Once we admit defeat, once we accept Gods
help, we become perfect in our unity with Him. So stop wearing guilt like a
scarlet letter, let go of beating yourself up. It's time to lean on a Higher
Power. You aren't in this game of life left to your own weak devices. You can
actually do all things through Christ who strengthens you. Set goals; check
them off, see the progression, but I forbid you to beat yourself up for what
you lack. You have a Savior, use His atonement to lift you, and I can promise
you will be filled with exhilarating Joy. Love, Light,& Joy,
The Joyful Life
Designer
Life Coach
Tiffany King
TheEmpoweringGift@gmail.com
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Sunday, January 29, 2017
All Joy Reminds....
My
problem was my definition of Joy. I thought Joy meant feeling good all
the time. Have you met anyone who feels good all of the time? I don't think that was the plan
"Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have Joy"
(2 Ne. 2:25). The mysterious word there is "might', it has always stood out to me whenever anybody would recite this scripture. Even for those who are naturally upbeat
and optimistic, it's impossible that they live in a constant state of Joy. We live in a world with opposition. There must needs be opposition in all things.
" These two powers have ever existed
and always will exist in all the eternities that are yet to come.
Although in relation to this earth, some time in its future history
there will be no death, and him that hath the power of death will be
destroyed. It is written in the Book of Mormon, “For it must needs be,
that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, righteousness
could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor
misery, neither good nor bad.”
When man is born into the world he is at once subject to the
influences of life and death, and to the innumerable and varied
vicissitudes which he meets in his passage from birth to the grave, to
give him an experience which will prepare him to enter into and enjoy
life everlasting. He is endowed with agency to choose either life or
death, and must abide the consequences in the next life of the choice
which he makes in this. Were it not that evil exists with good, man
could not have been an agent unto himself. When the spirit of man
enters the earthly tabernacle, it is as pure as an angel of God. When
man, as a child, is brought forth to the light, and begins to live,
move, and have a visible and an individual being in this world, he is
brought in contact with the principle of evil—he receives the mark of
sin, and as passes the usual stages from infancy to manhood, he learns
to become disobedient to the requirements of heaven, disobedient to
the laws of man, and disobedient to the laws of his own nature; he
engenders the spirit of hatred, malice, wrath, strife, and all that
class of evils which render him unfit to return again to the presence
of his Father and God; but if he will obey the Gospel and walk in the
ways of the Lord, his mortal existence and his proneness to sin, which
he has inherited through the fall, become profitable and essentially
necessary to the full enjoyment of salvation and eternal life."1
We have to start somewhere realistic when seeking Joy in our lives.
Joy is a feeling of trust that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet assurance that everything is going to work out, and the determined choice to look to God in gratitude even when in the dark times of life
In scripture, when looking for a definition of Joy, You’ll find nothing in that definition about happy feelings, because, as we all know, happiness is fleeting and temporary.
We tend to think that life comes like a roller coaster up and down steep slopes. Sometimes topsy turvy and zooming round and round. In reality, it’s much more like train tracks. Every day of your life, we experience good, pleasant pleasurable, and lovely things. We don't always see them. At the exact same time, sorrow, disappointment, hurt can cause us pain. These two tracks — both Joy and disappointment — run parallel to each other every single second of your life.
That’s why, when you’re in the midst of an amazing experience, you have a nagging realization that it’s not perfect. And while you’re experiencing something awful, there’s this nagging feeling, that turns into hope, it's a realization that there is still something good to be found. They’re inseparable.
I was able to go to my follow up appointment with my doctor this week. We went over the results of the MRI. We concluded that we will wait and watch the 5 mm lesion I nick-named "Trouble" instead of doing an invasive biopsy. I felt a sense of calm come over me. I felt I had pursued the right coarse of action. He ordered me to have another mammogram and MRI in June to see if there is any growth or change. I will also continue to be vigilant in self checks to watch for changes, as I encourage all women to do.Although this has felt like a lot of opposition for me, I know I will look back and see where the tracks converged of good and bad experiences to teach me and motivate me toward something better in my life. It really is about perspective. I love my joy journey. I love sharing it with you. I want us all to get there.
There is always two tracks one of happy times and one of unpleasant times.If you look down these two tracks, you will discover they merge into one narrow way. One day you will look back on your life experience like it was almost a dream. It will present itself to you again only from a different perspective. I watched home movies recently with my children. I realized so much was happening around me in the movies that at the time I did not perceive. I was living in my own mind and perspective. I was blinded by my own interpretation of my experience. Now watching these movies brought a new perspective. I saw myself different than I had imagined I was at that time in my life. It left me kind of feeling disturbed. Like I live a lie about myself walking around blinded by my perception. Like I am not who I think I am. how upsetting and unsettling this was. yet it was very enlightening to me. A miracle really. I realize now I will someday look back and see two tracks converge, they will make sense. My whole experience in life will become more complete. I will see I needed the times of grief as much as I needed the times of Joy. I will see that moments of Joy and sorrow were really just guideposts to let me know I was on the right track or wrong track to get to my final destination. Joy is not the destination. It is the reminder, the guide if you will. A reminder where you came for, a longing to return there. C.S. Lewis explains it perfectly:
“It (JOY) was valuable only as a pointer to something other and outer. While that other was in doubt, the pointer naturally loomed large in my thoughts. When we are lost in the woods the sight of a signpost is a great matter. He who first sees it cries, “Look!” The whole party gathers round and stares. But when we have found the road and are passing signposts every few miles, we shall not stop and stare.” –C.S. Lewis
"The Savior came into this world, according to his own statement, to give us life more abundantly (John 10:10)—in other words, that we might have Joy, an abundance of Joy, a continuance of Joy. Thus it is essential that we follow the pathway which the Son of Man marked out for us if we are to receive that abundant life which is a fullness of Joy.
We must learn to love the Lord our God with all of our hearts, might, mind, and strength (Matt. 22:37-38). We must abide by that Golden Rule (Matt. 7:12) and learn to love our neighbors as ourselves (Matt. 22:39). In this way, and in this way only, shall we have a fullness of Joy. There is no other road.
The night before the Savior's crucifixion, he said to his Apostles, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you" (John 14:27). It is the peace that comes through the Spirit of Jesus Christ; it is the light of Christ that enters into our hearts, that gives us a Joy—as the prophets have proclaimed—"... which passeth all understanding" (Philip. 4:7).
Also, in addition to the Spirit of Christ, we have received the Holy Ghost, a Comforter, to comfort us in time of distress. This Comforter brings a Godly peace into our hearts."2
“All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still “about to be.” -C.S. Lewis
I now look at Joy different than before. I understand more fully what CS. Lewis was trying to say. Recently, since my study of Joy began, I started cherishing those fleeting moments of Joy, and the longing that it entails. I am now reminded by Joy I am on the right track, the signpost is clear. I know where I came from, and I know where I am going ( both topics for another post). What I don't know, just like everybody else, is when I am going.Life is fragile. We are like a flower... here today and gone tomorrow.What has settled peacefully on my soul is something soul stirring and deep. I know that the ultimate destination, the feeling and pleasure of arrival there, will surpass even how Joy can feel.
The Joyful Life Designer
Life Coach
Tiffany King
TheEmpoweringGift@gmail.com
1 Remarks by President Brigham Young, made in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, June 3, 1866.
2"Men Are, That They Might Have Joy" Elder Milton R. Hunter
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Living Like I was Dyin'... Let's talk Joy!
On October 25th 2016 I had a irregular finding on a Mammogram that prompted another diagnostic Mammogram and Ultra Sound. After those exams, an additional finding showed up. I was left with decisions to make. Should I biopsy, watch & wait, or have an MRI? After prayer and inspiration, and some amazing acts of God, I had the MRI. I was filled with so much emotion. I researched and considered decisions to make. I was overwhelmed with the possibility that I, like my sweet maternal, Aunt Becky, would be struck down by the dreaded Pink Disease. The monster that steals women from their children, their lives, their world.
I suddenly found myself having a birthday, cherishing my own life, cherishing my birthday instead of dreading it. I used to hate my my birthday as a child, because it wasn't always a priority to my parents as they struggled to survive. As I have gotten older it just represents that very fact, I am getting older...YUCK! Older people are not valued as they should be in our society, nobody wants to go there. But now in these circumstances, I found myself celebrating myself, loving my life.Then like every other year following my birthday, I was thrust into the Christmas Season, the season of Joy,thinking about the possibility that my whole world, was ready to turn upside down. How was I going to do this????? How?????
I was asked to give a lesson on Joy in a class at my church. As I studied the subject, and came to the realization that Joy is a gift from God. It is a decision to accept it. It is an amazing happiness, that has nothing, and I reiterate, it has absolutely nothing, to do with my circumstances. I was blown away by this. The blinders flew off and I was free from the trap of my own negative, foggy, view of the world. I had lived in a haze of grey colored glasses so long. If I possibly had a death sentence, I was not going to make an exit in despair. I made up my mind, that if these test came back with malignancy, even possibly a late stage missed occult cancer, I would be leaving this world in a blaze of light, a flare of bright Joy.This sounds like I am really jumping ahead, but that is what people with anxiety do. They worry about things that may never happen. I honestly admit, I don't come by joy easily. I have struggled a lot in life and being positive is not really my most attractive quality. Now how was I going to start practicing this new Joy thing without hypocrisy?
It started with a daily gratitude list. Then in prayer on my knees by my bedside, I would thank God every day for as many blessings I could think of. I spent more time doing what I should be doing. Spending time with family, getting my priorities in order, and thinking about what legacy I would want to leave. How very melancholic I may seem. Well, there is a reason for that. Watching a close family member wither away in front of me at a young age, from the same concern they were considering happening in me...that will do it to ya. Funny how medical tests can put a fire under you. I was studying stages of breast cancer, treatments, and statistics, intermingled with scriptures on Joy. What a paradoxical course of study? I then started doing lot's of service for others. It was the most simple way I found to feel Joy and to get out of my problems, no matter how scary, or big they looked. It worked beautifully. I was feeling Joy....I am not kidding. Listen! Do I have your attention yet? This is the part I tell you, that choosing Joy works. I started making plans, BIG PLANS! I was going to live my dreams. I wasn't giving up so easy. I started planning out how I would accomplish what I know God has told me to do. I am a light to the world, and no disease will snuff me out before I SHINE and inspire others. I have a mission.... a calling, I am here for a reason.
One night in the beginning of this transformation, I laid on my couch just chilling listen to music. Then this song came on, and my whole life got really clear, really fast.
Everything I did after that I realized I was living in the moment. Cherishing
time itself. It was amazing. I don't regret going through this trial because of
the amazing things it has taught me so far. Things are looking good, they are
looking so good. I know I will have to make some decisions when I talk to the
Doctor soon. I will have to make a plan to stay on top of the 5 mm lesion I
nick-named ("Trouble"). Come to think of it my dad’s brother, Uncle
Dan, had an adorable dog named Trouble, but he was real sweet. This experience
has made me proactive and an advocate for breast cancer awareness. But the best
thing that has happened from this, is I discovered how to have Joy, and how to
have it more abundantly....and I have to agree with Tim on this, someday I hope
you get the chance, to live like you were dyin'.
The Joyful Life Designer
Life Coach
Tiffany King
TheEmpoweringGift@gmail.com
He
said I was in my early 40's,
With a lot of life before me,
And a moment came that stopped me on a dime.
I spent most of the next days, lookin' at the x-rays,
Talkin' 'bout the options and talkin' 'bout sweet time.
Asked him when it would sank in, that this might really be the real end.
How's it hit ya, when you get that kind of news.
Man what ya do.
And he says,
[Chorus]
I went sky divin',
I went rocky mountain climbin',
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull name Fumanchu.
And I loved deeper,
And I spoke sweeter,
And I gave forgiveness I've been denying,
And he said someday I hope you get the chance,
To live like you were dyin'.
He said I was finally the husband,
That most the time I wasn't.
And I became a friend a friend would like to have.
And all the sudden goin' fishing,
Wasn't such an imposition.
And I went three times that year I lost my dad.
Well I finally read the good book,
And I took a good long hard look at what I'd do
If I could do it all again.
And then.
[Chorus]
Like tomorrow was a gift and you've got eternity
To think about what you do with it,
What could you do with it, what can
I do with with it, what would I do with it.
To live like you were dyin'.
To live like you were dyin'.
To live like you were dyin'.
To live like you were dyin'.
With a lot of life before me,
And a moment came that stopped me on a dime.
I spent most of the next days, lookin' at the x-rays,
Talkin' 'bout the options and talkin' 'bout sweet time.
Asked him when it would sank in, that this might really be the real end.
How's it hit ya, when you get that kind of news.
Man what ya do.
And he says,
[Chorus]
I went sky divin',
I went rocky mountain climbin',
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull name Fumanchu.
And I loved deeper,
And I spoke sweeter,
And I gave forgiveness I've been denying,
And he said someday I hope you get the chance,
To live like you were dyin'.
He said I was finally the husband,
That most the time I wasn't.
And I became a friend a friend would like to have.
And all the sudden goin' fishing,
Wasn't such an imposition.
And I went three times that year I lost my dad.
Well I finally read the good book,
And I took a good long hard look at what I'd do
If I could do it all again.
And then.
[Chorus]
Like tomorrow was a gift and you've got eternity
To think about what you do with it,
What could you do with it, what can
I do with with it, what would I do with it.
To live like you were dyin'.
To live like you were dyin'.
To live like you were dyin'.
To live like you were dyin'.
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